Geneva+Colton


 * SUMMARY: Geneva Colton, age 21, bled to death on July 18, 1979 after an abortion at Northside Family Planning in Atlanta, GA.**

Geneva Colton, age 21, a mother of two employed as a Cochran, GA meter maid, underwent an abortion at Northside Family Planning Service in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 18, 1979.

On the drive back home she was in pain, but she figured that this was just the cramping the clinic had told her to expect.

At 8:30 that evening, Geneva was admitted to a hospital, with no vital signs detected. Doctors attempted to resuscitate her, to no avail. She was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m., six hours after being discharged from the clinic.

The autopsy found that Geneva's uterus had been perforated. She had [|bled to death].

Northside was eventually sued by their malpractice insurer because they'd allowed one of their abortionists to continue to perform surgery even though his manual dexterity had deteriorated due to multiple sclerosis. The suit by the insurer also alleged failure to meet state health standards, failure to have enough nurses on duty, failure to have proper on-call procedures, and lack of a professional director of medical services.

The clinic where Geneva's fatal abortion was performed seems to be the same clinic where [|Catherine Pierce] underwent her fatal abortion in 1989.

As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.



Sources:
 * "Death follows abortion," //Rome (GA) News-Tribune//, July 20, 1979
 * "Autopsy Blames Abortion For Death Of Cochran Woman," //Atlanta Journal and Constitution//, July 21, 1979, 12A;
 * "State told to draw new abortion rules," //Rome (GA) News-Tribune//, November 8, 1979
 * //Atlanta Daily Report//, 7-20-94





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